{"id":59277,"date":"2014-05-30T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=59277"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:23:12","slug":"south-africa-stone-last-in-maths-and-science-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/59277\/south-africa-stone-last-in-maths-and-science-list\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa stone last in maths and science list"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its \u201cGlobal Information Technology Report 2014\u201d, which shows that South Africa has the worst quality of mathematics and science education of all the countries surveyed.<\/p>\n

The report provides an assessment of networked readiness, or how prepared an economy is to apply the benefits of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to promote economic growth and well-being.<\/p>\n

The report ranks the progress of 148 economies in leveraging ICTs to increase productivity, economic growth and the number of quality jobs.<\/p>\n

According to the report, South Africa\u2019s education system is of very poor quality \u2013 ranked at 146 out of 148 countries.<\/p>\n

When looking at the quality of mathematics and science education, South Africa was ranked last, hence at 148 out of 148 countries.<\/p>\n

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This means that South Africa\u2019s mathematics and science education quality is worse than Angola, Mozambique, Gabon and various other developing nations.<\/p>\n

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South Africa facing ICT challenges<\/h3>\n

South Africa\u2019s poor education quality, especially in mathematics and science, does not bode well for the country.<\/p>\n

The WEF said that skills and education, especially in mathematics and science, are needed for a society to make effective use of ICTs. This is mostly absent in South Africa.<\/p>\n

In November 2013, Naspers CEO Koos Bekker warned that South Africa\u2019s poor education system is hurting Internet developments and investments in the country by not developing enough engineers to drive the country forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get an engineer you need a kid who is enthused about mathematics, and is prepared to study engineering at university,\u201d said Bekker.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegrettably our education system is so poor it simply does not yield the mathematics geniuses we need to go to university to become engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that Naspers has already started to bring in engineers from India<\/strong><\/a> to supplement their own people in South Africa to execute the company\u2019s e-commerce strategy.<\/p>\n

More on South Africa<\/h3>\n

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